Unholy Marriage?

My first ever bass is/was a MIM P-Bass (It says "Fender" in the normal size and location on the headstock and "Squier series" about 1/4 of the size a little further toward the end, so I guess it's from before Squier became a separate brand).

Anyway, the guy who gave it to me routed it out, took out the stock P-pickup, and put a sort of J-style pickup. It's about the size a P-pickup would be if it were inline instead of split.

This left me with a bit of a pickguard quandary. For a few years, I just put a sticker over the hole left by the upper half of the P-pickup, but I decided to make a change.

A friend of mine (former metalhead) had a spare piece of diamondplate laying around and thought it would make a cool pickguard. I resisted for several months, but finally figured I might as well try it. Wasn't going to cost me anything. The standard P-pickguard shape turned out to be a little beyond our metalworking skills, and then it hit me. A Stingray-style pickguard might look pretty cool on a P-bass, and the overall effect would have a lot less diamondplate. I don't have any pictures yet, but the rough idea looks a lot better than I thought it would.

Any opinions on a P-Bass body with a little fatter than normal J-style pickup and a Stingray-inspired pickguard?

It sounds really good (of course, good is incredibly subjective)! Very growly fingerstyle, or grind for days if you use a pick, which I rarely do anymore. It's not for the subtle stuff, though. Definitely a rock & roll bass (read "rock & roll" as more of a vibe than a particular musical style)

I mostly use it as a backup only because I've gotten used to the neck on my MIM jazz, but it was my main bass for about 4 years.

:: SOUND CLIP ::
I found this short wave file that I made with this bass about a year and a half ago. A co-worker asked me to turn a short line graph into music. I set graph next to a standard notation sheet, decided on the Key of A, and made this. It follows the graph pretty closely. It also makes for a good sample clip because it uses all the strings. Sorry about the size/length ratio, it's a 10-second clip but it's about 725K. I couldn't get my ancient computer to convert it to an MP3 for some reason. Also, the hissiness can be traced directly to the crappiness of my sound card.